Oh right. I forget, if they don't agree with you enphatically, they must always be wrong. Well let us know which Redmond Office we too can be brainwashed at and we'll meet you there, ok?
By the way, aren't you the same guy who programmed an operating system in Visual Basic?
This is right up there with the guy who developed an enterprise level web service using Access. It's sort of like trying to drive a nail through a 2x4 with a chunk of Jello.
Well, from the start Microsoft was a primary developer for applications software on the Mac platform. When the Mac was introduced, MS was not the behemoth it is today, but it WAS the king of systems software and languages already, so it was natural to turn to MS to develop a BASIC for the Mac (Applesoft BASIC on the II+ was a derivative/extension of the same MS-BASIC used on the Commodore PET). Furthermore, MS was trying to break through in the applications a
You're right, I don't think MS would be that careless with a prototype product. Furthermore, other posters have noticed upon further examination that these are NOT pics from a 1983 "Teen Beat" magazine--the article posted to/. is false (although the pictures are hilarious).
The pictures appear to be taken in 1985, most likely as part of an article in some computer magazine covering the release of Windows 1.0 on the unsuspecting public. Given the "I'm too sexy for my C-prompt" atmosphere, perhaps they wer
Soooooo Slashdot was right apparently, about everything about this article that matters and made it interesting and wrong about a pointless detail that led to none of the interest in this article.
Well, I'm pretty much okay with that.
1983? (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:1983? (Score:5, Informative)
And, here is the original image in Corbis [corbis.com].
So, as always, Slashdot is wrong. It is from 1985, not 1983. But, amazingly enough, it actually is Bill Gates, and it is real.
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Re:1983? (Score:1, Flamebait)
Oh right. I forget, if they don't agree with you enphatically, they must always be wrong. Well let us know which Redmond Office we too can be brainwashed at and we'll meet you there, ok?
By the way, aren't you the same guy who programmed an operating system in Visual Basic?
Re:1983? (Score:1)
Wow, I would love to see that
Give links please
Re:1983? (Score:2)
Good luck with that MS certification though.
Re:1983? (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:1983? (Score:2)
Self: Well, self, the Mac came out in very early 1984 (January 24th to be exact). Microsoft was one of the earliest developers for the Mac.
To self: Does that mean that they could have had development Mac units in 1983?
Self: Indeed it does. Indeed it does.
Bill's Mac (Score:3, Interesting)
Well, from the start Microsoft was a primary developer for applications software on the Mac platform. When the Mac was introduced, MS was not the behemoth it is today, but it WAS the king of systems software and languages already, so it was natural to turn to MS to develop a BASIC for the Mac (Applesoft BASIC on the II+ was a derivative/extension of the same MS-BASIC used on the Commodore PET). Furthermore, MS was trying to break through in the applications a
Re:Bill's Mac (Score:2)
The Mac is the spoiler (Score:2)
The pictures appear to be taken in 1985, most likely as part of an article in some computer magazine covering the release of Windows 1.0 on the unsuspecting public. Given the "I'm too sexy for my C-prompt" atmosphere, perhaps they wer
Re:1983? (Score:5, Funny)
Should we start a pool on when the dupe will appear? I pick Saturday and Timothy.
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Re:Gates should buy the rights from Corbis (Score:2)
Gates should invent a high-powered laser rifle. Then he could eviscerate anyone who used this picture.
Both suggestions have the same likelihood of occurring.
Re:Gates should buy the rights from Corbis (Score:2)
Your suggestion has as much merit as Gates using deadly force to prohibit distribution of these photos.
Get it?
Re:Gates should buy the rights from Corbis (Score:2)
Cluebat at the ready; set to stun!
Re:Gates should buy the rights from Corbis (Score:5, Informative)
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Re:1983? (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:1983? (Score:1)
Other interesting snippets from it:
Adults
Cream
Hands on head
Reclining
Sweaters
Altitude
Yup, it was pr0n....